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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 23, 1919
Page
4
A lyrically dated reflection on Dec 23 describing ice on the river and lake, children skating and sledding, and an elderly speaker with rheumatic pains watching youth play. The verse contrasts youthful energy with aging, gray-haired limits, and quiet blessing of the passing parade.
Miss Sizer spoke at Handley Library under the Woman's Civic League about Y W C A work in devastated areas of France Belgium and Poland. Winchester’s 1920 quota was set at 250 with several ladies pledging. a committee led by Mrs Hunter H. McGuire will collect contributions.
The United Brethren Church hosts a Christmas program Thursday at 7 30 featuring the Sunday School children, a Christmas Entertain ment led by the Christmas Fairy, and Junior sketches including The Pink Scarf performed by eight schoolgirls.
Harry H. Lynch of Washington D C is home for the holidays with family as relatives include Mrs. Lynch and others awaiting the season’s gatherings.
The report notes that Maurice M. Lynch Jr. and his brother are home for the holidays with Maurice studying at Hampden Sydney College in Virginia.
The Grace Lutheran Church Sunday School plans a Christmas program at 6 PM on Wednesday. It includes a processional, anthems such as First Christmas Morn by Newton and Joy To the World by Stultz, choruses, a prayer, a scripture reading, and distribution of gifts. The program features the Primary Section and pieces Hark What Men Those Holy Voices and Song of the Long Ago.
The Associated Press reports Chicago jewelers say this Christmas features record purchases including a $275,000 pearl necklace and rings priced from $3,000 to $5,000 and many gifts between $50,000 and $100,000. The center pearl alone cost $40,000.
London reports Premier Lloyd George will travel to Paris next week to confer with Premier Clemenceau on British French wartime policy, the Associated Press says.
Rome reports Captain Gabriele D Annunzio has departed Fiume aboard the steamer Cannonia according to newspaper dispatches received here.
Lawton Michigan reports Assistant Prosecutor Glenn Warner announced an 80 year old Mrs Sarah I Tabor signed statement accusing Joseph Virgo of performing an illegal operation on Maud Tabor. The body of linguist Maud Tabor was found in a basement trunk after her disappearance in 1916. Virgo was married to Maud about a year before her disappearance and is accused of taking her to a deserted farmhouse for three days before returning her home where she died.
Geneva dispatch reports a planned Bolshevik offensive against Poland next spring led by Leon Trotsky and other Soviet leaders. Chinese troops recruited at 8,000 daily and trained in Soviet schools are said to aid the campaign. Also notes Donald Nixdorff returning home for the Christmas holidays.
The Market Street Methodist Episcopal Sunday school will host a Christmas program in the church Sunday school room at seven o clock Christmas night with an all star program by officers teachers and scholars An offering to aid Armenian sufferers will be collected to help the women and children harmed by the Turks Miss Louise Warren Hurd of Mary Baldwin Seminary Staunton VA is visiting for the holidays.
An illustrated Ohio row of twelve apple trees shows that fertilized trees yielded 46 barrels versus 9 barrels from unfertilized trees. With 37 extra barrels produced, the cost was 4.37 dollars, under 12 cents per barrel, highlighting fertilizer as the key investment.
A druggist touts Wyeths Sage and Sulphur Compound as a popular hair dye sold nationwide. It claims to darken gray hair naturally after one or two applications, restoring a youthful, attractive appearance and denying any disease cure.
Mrs. Clay Frye of Ferguson Station Missouri extols Cham berlain's Cough Remedy as a splendid medicine. She says she uses it for children at the first sign of croup and that it quickly relieves cold symptoms in adults. The testimonial emphasizes its family benefits and rapid relief.
These tablets are intended especially for indigestion and constipation. They ease the stomach and enable its natural function. They act gently on the liver and bowels, restoring normal bowels to health. If you feel dull and constipated, give them a trial. Sale by all druggists. adv.
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